LOCAL PROJECTS: Food, Scholarships, Parades, Scouting, Finding Help
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FOOD and FOOD BANKS (In 2016 we donated 110 Hours and $3000)
Food Bank Extra Help (North Helpline -Lake City) - Join us every Second Thursday each month. See into the eyes of the hungry as you hand out food to families. Work with like-minded neighbors. This is a great way to grow a sense of empathy for folks in need! Vegetable Gleaning (Farmer's Market - Lake City) - Food Banks need fresh vegetables, because fresh vegetables make fresh minds! We glean vegetables from farmers as they close up their stalls. These free vegetables go right to the North Helpline foodbank, where they are cleaned and packaged for the public. Vegetable Gleaning (Rotary First Harvest - Kent) - More fresh vegetables, more fresh minds! We muster volunteers once a year to prepare vegetables for local food banks. Gleaned and trucked from across the state, Rotary volunteers wrap these gleanings into safe, clean single packages for family dinners, Food Baskets for Thanksgiving and Christmas (Lake City) We have fun with Scout Troop 850 two Saturday mornings each fall, once before Thanksgiving, once before Christmas, making food baskets for hungry neighbors. Rotarians collect the food ad assemble the baskets; The Boy Scouts serve breakfast and clean up; The Cub Scouts look cute and deliver the baskets (with their parents). Imagine the delight of a woman seeing a cherubic cub scout at the door... imagine the cub's life-long memory of the dignity and grace of the woman. Get together for the holidays with these Saturday breakfast parties that both FEED and really TOUCH - our neighbors! |
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SCHOLARSHIPS - for COLLEGE: (In 2017, we gave 15 Hrs and $8000)
Supporting the Safety Net- Middle College High School, located at the Northgate Mall, enrolls kids falling behind or falling out of local high schools. Most of these kids need help because of changes in their family's circumstances. Middle College provides the community and support these kids need to get through - and get on - to College.
Honoring Self-Starters- Rotary helps four of these kids get on to College with $2000 scholarships. Each year Rotarians review the merits of over a dozen student applicants to select finalists. We then host them, with their families and teachers, at a Rotary lunch, where the scholarships are awarded and the recipients tell their stories.
PARADES - THE LAKE CITY KIDDIE PARADE and PIONEER DAYS PARADE: (In 2016-17, we gave 40 Hrs and $2000)
Having Fun- Bringing people together for a party is a Rotary Trademark, so its natural we be involved in the parade. We have been organizing the kiddie parade for over twenty years, but this year stepped up to help in promotion and sponsoring some costs of the Grand Parade too.
SCOUT TROOP 850: (In 2016-17, we gave 8 Hours and $500)
Building Leaders- Leadership skills emerge naturally from teamwork and common sense. Scouting plants the seeds of these leadership skills in young minds, where they grow into the wisdom of great parents and leaders.
Supporting the Safety Net- Middle College High School, located at the Northgate Mall, enrolls kids falling behind or falling out of local high schools. Most of these kids need help because of changes in their family's circumstances. Middle College provides the community and support these kids need to get through - and get on - to College.
Honoring Self-Starters- Rotary helps four of these kids get on to College with $2000 scholarships. Each year Rotarians review the merits of over a dozen student applicants to select finalists. We then host them, with their families and teachers, at a Rotary lunch, where the scholarships are awarded and the recipients tell their stories.
PARADES - THE LAKE CITY KIDDIE PARADE and PIONEER DAYS PARADE: (In 2016-17, we gave 40 Hrs and $2000)
Having Fun- Bringing people together for a party is a Rotary Trademark, so its natural we be involved in the parade. We have been organizing the kiddie parade for over twenty years, but this year stepped up to help in promotion and sponsoring some costs of the Grand Parade too.
SCOUT TROOP 850: (In 2016-17, we gave 8 Hours and $500)
Building Leaders- Leadership skills emerge naturally from teamwork and common sense. Scouting plants the seeds of these leadership skills in young minds, where they grow into the wisdom of great parents and leaders.
CONNECTING PEOPLE
(In 2016-17, we gave 15 Hours and $500)
Help Build the American Dream New families from other countries are very ready to become productive. All they need is a little help getting plugged into local programs.
Rotary Club of Seattle NE is funding the purchase of community "networking" boards. Mounted in public spaces at community housing projects, these boards help local staff steer families to programs and activities.
(In 2016-17, we gave 15 Hours and $500)
Help Build the American Dream New families from other countries are very ready to become productive. All they need is a little help getting plugged into local programs.
Rotary Club of Seattle NE is funding the purchase of community "networking" boards. Mounted in public spaces at community housing projects, these boards help local staff steer families to programs and activities.
HELPING LOCAL STUDENTS - $500 Grant for PTSA projects
We like supporting Kids and Neighbors in NE Seattle. Once a month, we draw a PTSA winner for a $500 grant. PTSAs that can muster at least 5 people (parents or just friends of parents) to attend LAKE CITY BINGO-KARAOKE qualify for the drawing.
